Violin Concerto No. 2

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• 1952

Instrumentation

• 2.1+ca.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.3perc-hp.pf-strings

Length

• 14 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete: Box 9, Folder 6
  • Solo violin part, complete: Box 9, Folder 6
  • Piano reduction, complete: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Piano part from reduction, complete: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Parts, miscellaneous (some incomplete): Box 9, Folder 4
  • Drafts, miscellaneous: Box 9, Folder 5
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete: Box 2A, Folder 4; Box 4A, Folder 8
  • Piano reduction, complete (May 1952): Box 3B, Folder 14
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 4, Folder 4
  • Solo violin part, complete: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Piano reduction, complete (May 1952): Box 4, Folder 6

Premiere Performance

• Violin and piano: November, 2, 1953; Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building (410 S. Michigan Ave.), Chicago. Musicians Club of Women. Minnie Cedargreen Jernberg, violin, and Florence Henline, piano.¹
• Full orchestra: February 17, 2018; Arend Arts Center, Bentonville, Arkansas; Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra; Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Steven Byess, conductor.

Published Editions

• Full Score: Violin Concerto No. 2. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2022.
• Reduction for Violin and Piano: Violin Concerto No. 2. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2019.
  • OCLC: 1141478938

Recordings

• Florence Price: Violin Concertos. Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Ryan Cockerham, conductor; The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra. Albany Records TROY1706, 2018.
• Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition). Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Jonathon Heyward, conductor; Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Cedille Records CDR 90000 214, 2022.
• Max Bruch | Florence Price: Violin Concertos. Randall Goosby, violin; Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor. Decca, 2023.
• BBC Music Magazine Collection 32, No. 6. Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Jonathon Heyward, conductor. BBCMM498, 2024.

Thematic Incipits

Bibliography

1. Baranello, Micaela. “Welcoming a Black Female Composer into the Canon. Finally.” New York Times, February 9, 2018.
2. Hill, Alexandra Kori. “Make the Familiar New: New Negro Modernism in the Concertos of Florence B. Price.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2022.

Entry History

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